Using advanced computer simulations, researchers have reconstructed the geological past of the region, uncovering a ...

Hollywood films would have us believe the best way to deal with an Earth-threatening asteroid is to blast it out of orbit. But the European Space Agency (ESA) is looking at a far subtler approach to ...

Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...

New theory posits black holes may transition into ‘white holes’, ejecting matter and potentially even time itself, back into ...

An eight-day mission has turned into a nine-month space stint for two NASA astronauts who are finally set to come home. But ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Scientists have explained everything that might happen to the two 'stranded' NASA astronauts' bodies when they finally return ...

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Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

While Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have been in space for nine months, Frank Rubio was in orbit for over a year ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...